Max Verstappen has labelled for F1 guidelines to likelihood after Carlos Sainz was handed a penalty on the Las Vegas Grand Prix.
The Spaniard was pressured to switch a lot of components on his Ferrari after hitting a free drain cowl, that means that he was penalised for altering too many components on his automobile all through the season.
Sainz’ penalty has prompted uproar, and Verstappen is the newest star to leap to the defence of his rival, saying: “The principles have to vary for that. I imply, it’s the identical in case you get taken out and you’ve got an enormous accident, you’ll be able to lose components of the engine, power retailer, all these form of issues.
“To start with, that should change. These items might be considered that in case you can take a free, let’s say, penalty or not, it won’t be counted. And in addition to that I feel the groups shouldn’t be allowed to have a say in these form of issues. As a result of for positive, they’re going to vote towards that,” he continued. Personally I do assume it’s very harsh on Carlos. However on this political setting that we’re in, in fact each workforce thinks about themselves and naturally they’re going to say ‘sure take the penalty.’”